History of Computing exam question

From: One Without Reason <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Fri Nov 30 10:54:07 2001

I'm curious, Tony? Why the PDP-6 and not the PDP-7? Sure, the PDP-6 was
used in AI development, but UNIX was written on a PDP-7.

Peace... Sridhar

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Tony Duell wrote:

> Here's my list. It's a bit disorganised, and doubtless some of the
> machines shouldn't really be there, but anyway. I am going to assume that
> this wonderful technology that can grab any machine from the past can
> also recreate a machine from the blueprints, even if it was never
> actually made. That way I can have the first machine on my list :
> <SNIP!>
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